I want to add a simple click-through license to an exe-installer I create with the javafx-maven-plugin (version 8.1.3) which itself uses Inno Setup.
From what I understand from the Oracle documentation this can only be done with Inno Setup, not with MSI – which would be fine as well. In the Ant Task it seems one has to use a <fx:fileset>
with type license
:
Resources of type
license
are used as a source of content for a click-through license or a license embedded into the package.
Now I know that the icon for the application has to be placed in the folder src/main/deploy/windows/
. But is this also the folder where I have to place the license file? Will it be picked up automatically? And does it have to follow a specific naming convention ("license.rtf" for instance)?
Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of the javafx-maven-plugin .
I've modified some small dummy-project of mine and came up with the following solution:
<plugin>
<groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>8.4.0</version>
<configuration>
<mainClass>your.path.to.the.mainclass</mainClass>
<verbose>true</verbose>
<bundleArguments>
<licenseFile>someFileThatIsTheLicense.rtf</licenseFile>
</bundleArguments>
<additionalAppResources>src/main/additionalAppResources</additionalAppResources><!-- name does not matter, it's just some folder :D -->
</configuration>
</plugin>
The special thing is the new <additionalAppResources>
-property I added to the plugin, this makes it possible to add stuff to the generated native app including all created installers. As the license-file is some special thing for installers, it is set via some <bundleArguments>
inside your plugin-configuration.
Just set <licenseFile>
to the name of your license, but be aware : the FILENAME itself does not matter (no auto-detection stuff here), but it matters case-sensitivity AND i suggest to NOT put that file in some subfolder, because the license-file-detection is a bit flawed here inside the packagers themselves!
It works for MSI- and for EXE-installer on Windows, and for Mac and Linux too ;)
Oh, and you can update to the latest javafx-maven-plugin version too :D
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